Political Correctness The term “Political Correct” has been in the nation’s vocabulary for only a short period of time but has changed the way that we view life and communicate with one another. Political correctness, politically correct, and P.C. are terms that refer, to a social idea that is characterized by efforts to redress, mainly by the use of language, real or supposed discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, nationality, disability or any other criteria that could offended a particular
purpose to educate and entertain an audience. “Politically Correct Snow White”, an extract from “Politically Correct Bedtime Stories” composed by James Finn Garner, draws inspiration from the texts context as a purpose to entertain the audience. In contrast, comedy skit, “iRack” an extract from comedy spoof show “Madtv”, draws influence from the texts context to educate the desired audience about that particular period of time. Therefore, “Politically correct Snow white” compares to iRack as Snow white
Is Charles Perrault’s Little Red Riding Hood Relevant to the Modern World? A story commonly spread through word of mouth, Charles Perrault wrote an early rendition of Little Red Riding Hood in 1697. Between the late 17th century and today, there have been a few changes in societal norms, customs, and understandings of social values. To summarize, laws based on religion have given way to laws based on science…in turn, scientists have taken their newfound social power and discovered ways to
Riding Hood from two different authors that make their own version to it to express what they actually think about it. Brothers Grimm is the author who created the original story about Little Red and its purpose was to teach kids to always stay on the right path. James Finn Garner is the other author that made the politically correct version of the fairytale of LRRH and his purpose was to teach his audience to challenge stereotypes from our society. He is stating not only to persuade individuals to challenge
Twists 31. Conclusion 33. Bibliography / Reference Introduction Having decided to produce a children’s book as part of my Degree course, I initially considered writing a contemporary version of one of the old folk or fairy tales, possibly a story by Hans Christian Andersen or a tale collected by the Brothers Grimm. I narrowed my selections and decided tentatively on a reworking of the classic folk tale ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’. I immediately tried to blank all thoughts of ‘Happy’,
they needed to know, but she wrote the information in such a way that it was read and absorbed rather easily by her audience. Kingsolver would approve of such a method, as it states the facts while also being persuasive and gentle; it’s more of a bedtime story than a biography in some instances. In “Our Secret” Griffin writes, “Time can be measured in many ways. We see time as moving forward and hope that by our efforts this motion is toward improvement” (300). This is a fairly bold statement to make